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Articles by Toby Ferris
Identity Crisis | April 11, 2020 - Air Mail
The elusive Pieter Bruegel the Elder left behind two sons and fewer than 50 paintings, among them The Tower of Babel.
Review | In ‘Short Life in a Strange World,’ paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder help an author make sense of his existence
Some people dream of seeing a game in every stadium in the major leagues. Others are content to stream all 16 seasons of “Grey’s Anatomy.” For his part, Toby Ferris wanted to stand before every painting by the Dutch Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
On the Paintings of Pieter Bruegel
The census is an unusual subject. Pieter Bruegel has painted one of the culminating moments of bureaucratic life. Bureaucracy is the science of docketing the routine comings and goings of existence—births and deaths, taxes paid and taxes owing; it is a rolling program of work, one without end. A census, however, is a one-off. It is a flourish of the bureaucrat’s art. You do not merely keep the ball of a census rolling: it wants planning and execution.
The Adventurer's Son
“A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.”—Jon Krakauer In the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. The Adventurer’s Son is Roman Dial’s extraordinary account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s fate.
Becoming Superman
Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman! “J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.” -- Max Brooks (World War Z) For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to forge multiple careers in movies, television and comics. Yet there’s one story he’s never told before: his own.
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